After over an hour of trying to get it to work I'm thinking it's because of cross domain policies, but I really thought this would work. I can't find a lot of info on it either. But, here is my issue. I have a site called http://mysite.com and then I include a 3rd party script (what im writing) and its at http://supercoolsite.com/api/script.js and this script needs to dynamically load the google maps api at: http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false before it runs. Well, i figured this code would work:
function loadScript(filename,callback){
var fileref=document.createElement('script');
fileref.setAttribute("type","text/javascript");
fileref.setAttribute("src", filename);
fileref.onload = callback();
if (typeof fileref!="undefined"){
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(fileref)
}
}
loadScript('http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false',function(){
console.log('done loading');
init();
});
But my response in my console is:
api.js:408 done loading
api.js:115 test
api.js:310 Uncaught ReferenceError: google is not defined
the "test
" is at the top of the init()
. So, it's loading the script, but it's not executing it, it seems. So, any ideas? If it is a cross site scripting issue my only method of fixing this i could think of is having a PHP script on our end that basically just sets the header to a text/javascript header and then echo file_get_contents()
into a googlemaps.php
file we host. About to try this as we speak, but, if possible, a way to do it with pure JS would be awesome.
P.S. I also tried adding jQuery, then doing getScript()
, and it still didnt work
-- UPDATE --
See this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ycMCa/2/
You'll see that you get the error in your console:
Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function
Despite that the google
variable is global.